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Biography

Phillip Kite
Phillip Kite Harneys front portrait image

He is a very wise and insightful litigator.

Chambers and Partners

Phillip Kite

Consultant | Dispute Resolution | British Virgin Islands
+1 284 494 2233 bvi@harneys.com
Biography

Phillip Kite headed our global Litigation, Insolvency and Restructuring team for over 25 years and retired as a partner of Harneys in 2024. He has significant experience helping clients win complex, high-profile, and high-value litigation and insolvency matters. Phillip is now an ambassador for our Litigation, Insolvency and Restructuring practice. Phillip has a depth of offshore insight, having been involved in most of the largest litigation and insolvency cases in the BVI for almost three decades, and has appeared numerous times before the BVI Court of Appeal and Privy Council. His areas of expertise include fraud, enforcement, shareh ...

Phillip Kite headed our global Litigation, Insolvency and Restructuring team for over 25 years and retired as a partner of Harneys in 2024. He has significant experience helping clients win complex, high-profile, and high-value litigation and insolvency matters.

Phillip is now an ambassador for our Litigation, Insolvency and Restructuring practice.

Phillip has a depth of offshore insight, having been involved in most of the largest litigation and insolvency cases in the BVI for almost three decades, and has appeared numerous times before the BVI Court of Appeal and Privy Council. His areas of expertise include fraud, enforcement, shareholder disputes, contentious trusts and probate.

Phillip is a contributing editor to British Virgin Islands Commercial Law, Sweet & Maxwell. He is a solicitor advocate and a member of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners, the Chancery Bar Association, and the Commercial Bar Association.

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Recommendations

Phillip is ranked for his BVI Dispute Resolution expertise. A source said: He is a very wise and insightful litigator.

Phillip is ranked for his BVI Dispute Resolution expertise. A source said: He is a very wise and insightful litigator.

Phillip is ranked as a Leading Individual for his BVI Dispute Resolution expertise.

Phillip is recommended in the Commercial Litigation index.

Phillip is ranked across several guides. He is a GIR - Asset Recovery Thought Leader (2023 - 2024) and has been recommended for his expertise in Asset Recovery (2019 - 2024), Commercial Litigation (2024), and Investigations (2023).

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Anguilla
1998

British Virgin Islands
1997

England and Wales (not practising)
1992

Chester College of Law
1990

University of Birmingham (LLB)
1989

He is a very wise and insightful litigator.
Chambers and Partners